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Apr
22
Wed
NSF Workshop: Privacy in an Era of Big Data @ 7th Floor, Alter Hall @ Temple University, Temple University
Apr 22 – Apr 23 all-day

A key aspect of the debate on Big Data is the potential for privacy breach by corporations, malicious individuals, and governments. Given the apparent tradeoff, but yet unexplored links between Big Data and Privacy, we will host a workshop sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a forward-looking agenda for research on the legal, technological, social, behavioral, economic, and broader implications of Big Data and Privacy in academia, industry, and government. The purpose of this NSF workshop is to bring together experts in the domain of big data and privacy to develop a research agenda for better understanding and promoting privacy in an era of big data.

The NSF workshop aims to bring academia, industry, and government from multiple disciplines, such as legal, technological, social, behavioral, and economic sciences to discuss how to establish meaningful collaborations to undertake the research agenda. The NSF workshop will be structured around four main topics:

  • tradeoff between benefits of big data and privacy protection
  • legal, public policy and regulatory issues on privacy
  • privacy protection technologies
  • social, behavior and economics approaches to encouraging individual privacy protection

The NSF workshop will attempt to answer these questions by facilitating brainstorming among experts through invited talks, panel discussions, and group exercises.  These sessions will provide concrete directions for guiding future research on Big Data and privacy, which in turn will provide inputs both to technology design as well as public policy.

The research agenda will be disseminated broadly to academics, practitioners, and government officials to raise awareness of the importance of the tradeoff between big data and privacy and facilitate greater interest and collaboration among academia, industry, and government. The key points from the NSF workshop will be published in a white paper with the aim to advance a multi-disciplinary scientific inquiry on big data and privacy among academia, industry, and government. The NSF workshop will also guide curriculum development for courses related to Big Data and privacy in business, information and law schools.

Apr
30
Thu
Nymity BCR Readiness Assessment
Apr 30 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 am

Are you ready for Binding Corporate Rules (BCR)?

During the webinar learn how to use the BCR Readiness Assessment Template to map the operational requirements of Binding Corporate Rules to your existing privacy program and ultimately generate a report which will help you:

• Determine how close your existing privacy program is to the minimum requirements for BCR

• Present your results to management in a way that is easy for non-privacy
professionals to understand

• Prepare to engage a law firm to help with the application process

• Track remediation efforts

Webinar attendees will receive a free Nymity BCR Readiness Assessment Excel spreadsheet template to assess your organization’s readiness for BCR.

This webinar is eligible for 0.5 CPE credit toward all IAPP certifications.

To register, click here.

The Internet of Things: Policy, Law and Reality
Apr 30 @ 11:45 am – 2:00 pm

Please join us at the upcoming KnowledgeNet and learn about the policy considerations, legal issues and practical solutions when dealing with products and services in the Internet of Things.

Speakers:

Andy Hobsbawm, Founder & CMO, EVRYTHNG
Pedro Pavón, CIPP/US, Corporate Counsel, Oracle
Jules Polonetsky, CIPP/US, Executive Director and Co-chair, Future of Privacy Forum
Moderators:

Ron De Jesus, CIPP/US, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, Manager, Cybersecurity and Privacy, PwC
Gary Kibel, CIPP/US, Partner, Davis & Gilbert LLP
Date and Time:

Thursday, April 30, 2015
11:45 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Location:

Davis & Gilbert LLP
1740 Broadway
19th floor
New York, NY 10019

May
2
Sat
Point to Point Camp
May 2 all-day

Point to Point Camp, a one day unconference, will bring together technologists, journalists, and lawyers — plus academics who think about those topics — to advance the interests of privacy, transparency, and democracy in the 21st Century.

As an unconference, most of the day’s programming will be created by the conference attendees. Sessions can be skillshares, panel talks, trainings, presentations, or something else entirely.

What do lawyers, journalists, and technologists have to talk about?

  • how to design systems to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks
  • 101s on data privacy law for journalists and technologists
  • seeing latent power dynamics inherent in laws and technologies
  • the best tools to increase your digital privacy
  • how to combine our efforts to maximize government transparency
  • how to code for inclusion and social justice
  • you tell us …

The event will provide ample time for hallway and barstool relationship building among experts in fields that are increasingly reliant on one another.

More info available here.

May
6
Wed
Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions @ Aspen Institute
May 6 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Marc Rotenberg, president and executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), will discuss his new book, Privacy in the Modern Age: The Search for Solutions, which highlights visionaries from across disciplines who propose solutions to the large-scale invasions of privacy of the digital age. Panelists include chapter authors Deborah Peel, founder & chair, Patient Privacy Rights, and Pablo Molina, chief information officer at the Association of American Law Schools. Moderated by Hayley Tsukayama, Technology Reporter, The Washington PostLunch will be served and books will be available for purchase.

 

May
11
Mon
Higher Education Privacy Conference (HEPC) @ George Washington University Marvin Center
May 11 all-day

The HEPC is one-day event that focuses on privacy and information management in higher education. The event consists of a combination of speakers and smaller breakout discussion groups to foster interactivity and engagement. Participants have a wide array of backgrounds, from higher education information officers, security officers, privacy officers, compliance officials, and general counsel. Also attending are key individuals from industry, law firms, associations, and government regulators.

This event is invitation-only, but we welcome your reaching out to us if we haven’t invited you. If you have relevant background and experience, we’d be delighted to include you. If there are people at your institution – or elsewhere – that you think we ought to invite, please feel free to suggest their names to us.

For more information, click here.

Looking at the Black Box Society @ Public Citizen
May 11 @ 9:30 am – 12:00 pm
U.S. PIRG and Center for Digital Democracy  are excited to announce that Professor Frank Pasquale (University of Maryland Law School) will discuss his new book “The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information.” (Harvard University Press 2015, http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368279 )
Following Professor Pasquale’s presentation, panels of civil society and government experts will discuss the implications of his findings for economic and employment opportunity.
The event will be open to the media and public and will be live web-streamed.
May
13
Wed
Ninth Law & Information Society Symposium @ Fordham University School of Law
May 13 @ 9:00 am – 6:30 pm

Trends in the global processing of data, developments in new technologies, privacy enforcement actions and government surveillance put international privacy at the center of the global law and policy agenda.  Government regulators, policymakers, legal experts, and industry players need to find solutions to cross-border conflicts and to the issues presented by innovative technologies.  This conference seeks to create a robust, but informal dialog that will explore possible solutions to current questions arising from the international legal framework, infrastructure architecture and commercial practices.  The conference will use a unique format.  Each panel will start with a short presentation on the technological and business context to set the stage.  The panel will be an informal, moderated roundtable discussion with a select group of experts followed by a question and answer session from the audience.

May
14
Thu
Share & Share Alike: The Regulatory Challenges of the New Sharing Economy @ The American Constitution Society, Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237
May 14 @ 12:00 pm – 1:45 pm

As the “sharing” economy has exploded in the last few years, companies such as Uber, Airbnb, and Task Rabbit have become major economic drivers valued in the billions of dollars. With this rapid growth come concerns that technology is outpacing the law. Join the American Constitution Society on Thursday, May 14 at 12:00pm for a discussion about how government and industry leaders can worth together to shape a framework that ensures consumers are protected without stifling technological innovation.

May
18
Mon
36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy @ The Fairmont (San Jose)
May 18 – May 20 all-day

Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2015 Symposium will mark the 36th annual meeting of this flagship conference.

For more info, click here.

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